Luca Mavelli is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between religion/secularism and neoliberalism/biopolitics in international politics. He is the author of Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Europe's Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular (Routledge, 2012), and the co-editor of The Refugee Crisis and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield 2017) and Towards a Postsecular International Politics (Palgrave, 2014). His latest articles have been published in Citizenship Studies, Political Geography, and International Political Sociology. His work has been funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the British Council, and the Leverhulme Trust.